Last night's Tom Dunne Show was a Halloween Special, taking place in the haunted Marsh’s Library in Dublin.
Tim Wheeler, of Ash, was a special guest on the show as he played a song from his debut solo album ‘Lost Domain’.
Marsh’s Library is the oldest free public library in Ireland. Archbishop Narcissus Marsh founded the institution in 1701. One of our guests, Jason McElligott, the Keeper, took the audience on a trip into a darker past...the library houses death warrants, reading cages and even a ghost.
The library is said to be haunted by its founder, then Archbishop, Narcissus Marsh. The story goes that Grace, Marsh’s 19-year-old niece whom he’d raised, fell in love with a man Marsh didn't approve of. He made his opposition to the relationship known and Grace eloped. The morning she and her lover left, she wrote a letter for her uncle explaining her disappearance and asking for forgiveness. Not wanting to leave it anywhere he would find it immediately and try to stop her, she hid it in one of the thousands of books in his library. Marsh died without ever finding the note and they say his ghost searches for it to this day, banging desks, rattling the reading cages and leafing through book after book.
Paranormal investigators (PSI Ireland) were on hand with their supernatural surveillance equipment in order to gather evidence of the ghost of the Archbishop.
The Eskies were our house band for the evening and played their superb new single, ‘Jesus Don’t Save Me’. Jack Lynch, one of Ireland’s most revered storytellers, joined Tom to tell a ghost story or two.
Meanwhile, George Byrne and Oisin Davis were on hand, as they are each Thursday. George looked at his top horror films of all time, while Oisin made his brand new ‘Scary Sour’ cocktail.
To listen back, simply click on the link at the top of this article!
